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Looks at how the media can inform the general public about the world at a time when public service broadcasting is under attack, and the popular press plays to the market with an output of sensationalism.Read more...

"This book originates from a colloquium organized in May 1989 at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik under the auspices of the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication of Stockholm University."--Page [ix].Includes index.

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1 online resource (280 pages.).

Contents:

""Book Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""A note on contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""THE AMBIGUITY OF HABERMAS""; ""FOR A RECONSTRUCTION""; ""INSTITUTIONAL CONFIGURATIONS: A NEW MEDIA AGE""; ""THE REALM OF SENSE-MAKING""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Part I Institutional logics""; ""Chapter 1 Rethinking the media as a public sphere""; ""LIBERAL AND RADICAL APPROACHES""; ""RADICAL DEMOCRATIC AND TRADITIONAL MARXIST/COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVES""; ""HISTORICAL ELUCIDATION: (1) BRITISH PRESS HISTORY"" ""HISTORICAL ELUCIDATION: (2) DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH BROADCASTING""""THE THIRD ROUTE""; ""NOTES""; ""Chapter 2 Goodbye, Hildy Johnson: the vanishing â€?serious pressâ€?""; ""NOTES""; ""Chapter 3 Selling consent: the public sphere as a televisual market-place""; ""PUBLIC SPHERES: JOURNALISM AND THE MARKET-PLACE""; ""TECHNOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC MARKET-PLACE""; ""PERSUASIVE NEWS: THE CAMPAIGN""; ""GOING PUBLIC WITH AIDS""; ""MOBILIZING MARKETS""; ""NOTES""; ""Chapter 4 Beyond balanced pluralism: broadcasting in Germany""; ""THE LURE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY"" ""PRIVATE BROADCASTING AND THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION""""THE 1987 INTER-LAND TREATY""; ""THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATIONS""; ""Control structure""; ""Programming pluralism in the public corporations""; ""THE PRIVATE BROADCASTING SECTOR""; ""Control structure""; ""Pluralism in organization""; ""A NEW PROGRAMME ORDER?""; ""NOTES""; ""Part II Politics and journalism""; ""Chapter 5 Bites and blips: chunk news, savvy talk and the bifurcation of American politics""; ""TOO HIP FOR WORDS""; ""AN AUDIENCE FOR THE SPECTACLE""; ""ON THE PREHISTORY OF BITES AND SPECTACLES"" ""INTIMATIONS OF THE HOLLOWING PUBLIC SPHERE""""NOTES""; ""Chapter 6 The public sphere and the use of news in a â€?coalitionâ€? system of government""; ""SOME DEFINITIONS AND CONTEXTUAL DATA""; ""THE NEGOTIAL USE OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION""; ""SOME EMPIRICAL INDICATORS""; ""CONCLUSION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 7 Musical chairs? The three public spheres in Poland""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SUBVERTING THE APPARATUS OF COGNITIVE CONTROL""; ""HOW MANY PUBLIC SPHERES IN POLAND?""; ""THE OLD POLITICAL SYSTEM COLLAPSES"" ""THE OFFICIAL MODEL OF THE NEW PUBLIC SPHERE""""New communication policy""; ""Stealing the oppositionâ€?s thunder""; ""NEW INFORMATION ORDER""; ""Defining the new order""; ""Building the new order""; ""WHAT NOW?""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 8 Discourses on politics: talking about public issues in the United States and Denmark""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""METHODOLOGIES""; ""The American case""; ""The Danish case""; ""Themes of politics""; ""FINDINGS: FOUR TYPES OF THEMES""; ""Powerful others""; ""Government/state""; ""God""; ""Environment/nature""; ""Class""; ""Economics""